Dead Space (Vidya)

Dead Space is a video game series inspired by the 1982 cult classic Horror/Science-Fiction movie "The Thing", Lovecraftian horror, and The Flood from Halo. It revolves around Isaac Clarke, a space engineer, and his mission to stop the Necromorphs, a type of Mutant Undead created by a Xeno Bacteria similar to the Cell-Kin, which are psychically controlled by Atropus-like organic planetoids composed of assimilated Necromorph-ified species. The series is composed of 3 main games, a few side games, and a reboot of the first game.

Setting Lore

The Dead Space universe is set in a far-flung future where humanity has colonized the stars, but is also experiencing a population boom to the point that resource harvesting has become incredibly vital for its future survival. To the point that there now exists a category of ships called "Planet Crackers", who literally rip uninhabited worlds deemed unfit for colonization apart to break them down into the raw minerals needed to feed the ever-hungry civilization. No alien life has been discovered in the entire galaxy, and most religions have died out - the only thriving religion is a totally-not-Scientology cult called "Unitology", which claims legitimacy from a mysterious, alien-crafted "Marker" that was supposedly discovered on Earth by their prophet, Altman, and which preaches about the need to preserve the bodies of the dead for a coming Rapture-like event when the minds and souls of the living and the dead will be merged into a single harmonious whole.

Things are about to go horribly, horribly wrong.